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as to the other preparations used by bird preservers. These are 

 either corrosive sublimate or regulus of arsenic, which is yellow 

 and of a consistence like butter. As I have said before, in cold 

 weather, when there are no flies about, alum will do perfectly 



Ihe Wire Legs, 

 well ; in wami weather either of the two others may be used. I 

 should prefer the former— corrosive sublimate — as the other is 

 "messy," and the chief object is to dry up anything which can 

 be attacked by flesh-seeking insects. When you have finished 

 your bird, you can lay the feathers with a large needle — it is as 

 well to have one fixed in a handle and kept for this purpose — 

 and, tying the two mandibles of the bill together with a piece of 

 thread until the whole specimen has hardened and dried, the 

 work is done. 



CHAPTER II. 



THE ART OF MOUNTING BIRDS, DRIED SKINS, FEATHERS, 



ETC. 



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We will suppose that a proficiency, from practice, has been at- 

 tained in the art of bird-preserving, according to the instructions 

 given. The proficiency in preserving may apply only to the 

 preservation and the form, great and necessaiy things, no doubt, 



